Scientific Inferences of Bollywood Songs:

Thousands of wise Indians have long been discussing the pleasant & adverse effects of Bollywood music over the young citizens of our country. Some have simply declared them as the major contributor to various downfalls our precious Indian culture has seen; while others have defended them as the evolution of our musical tastes.

Personally, I don’t fall in any of the groups and take each song as it is, a) Love-at-first-hearing awesome, b) Grow-on-you good, c) Nothing-else-to-hear-anyway fine and d) please-burn-this-headphone-that-I-played-this-song-with trash.

Well, I am going to bring up another side of our music – the science-defying lyrics. As you have probably guessed (because you are a bright mind), I am in a silly-funny mood today, so let us not go into the poetic depth of those lyrics and have a little fun (Thank you!).

Let’s face it, we are a very dramatic group of people, we Indians, and I am not saying that as a negative, I LOVE being dramatic! Not all the time, of course, just some particular situations, where it’s beneficial, where it’s … you get it!

Well, our music is not unlike us. In our effort to show grand dramatic expressions of love, we regularly show middle fingers to science.

Here are some examples:

Example 1:

This is a beautiful song from the movie Hum Aapke Dil mein Rehte Hain. It’s titled – Chhoop Gaya Badli Me Jaake (Hid behind the clouds). It’s a favourite of mine, but the lyrics I stumbled over was – Aapko Dekha To Phoolon Ko Pasina Aa Gaya (The flowers started sweating when they saw you).

Well at the risk of sounding nit-picky, there has been no documented proof of a flower’s ability to sweat. And if they did, they WOULD NOT smell so good! I mean, seriously! Have you smelt armpits ever?

Okay, you are saying it’s metaphorical and the flowers are just figuratively sweating at the presence of the lady. But why? Why are they so afraid? Does the lady have a ‘flowery’ diet? Is she like a Norman Bates, only, for flowers? If so, aren’t a lot of ladies? Why does the lyricist insist that the flowers have a specific range of fear just for this particular lady? Does she have chainsaws for teeth?

Or is it even deeper than that? Considering most ladies have plucked innocent flowers right out of their stem, at least a few times in their lifetime, is this the lyricist’s subtle satirical statement against flower-slaughtering? Women vs flower brethren, and stuff like that?

Well, it ain’t a rosy subject, is it? Let’s move on.

Example 2:

From the movie Gunehgar, the song goes - Rain Is Falling Chhama Chham Chham, (Sound of rain drops) Ladki Ne Aankh Maari Gir Gaye Hum (The girl winked at me and I fell).

Well, duh! It’s raining, and pretty heavily, from the sound of raindrops you just musically narrated… the road is obviously slippery! The girl’s wink has nothing to do with your falling… it’s friction & gravity you should ‘thank’ right now. And dude, in the future, look at the road rather than winking girls. Nobody has asked you to literally… fall …in love. Kids now-a-days, I tell you!